Black social science and the crisis of manhood, 1890-1970
Subtitle: we are the supermen
By: by Malinda Alaine Lindquist
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415517430; 9780203121719
Subjects: Psychology; Race identity; Social conditions; African American men; History; Social sciences; Masculinity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : inventing the young black male : race, science, and power; title: "We are men, the rest are something else" : rewriting social darwinism as a "revelation of the white man"; title: "To make a name in science and thus to raise my race" : scientific manhood in the age of Du Bois, 1893-1963; title: "We regarded with pride all the male members of the family" : E. Franklin Frazier from founding fathers and masculine proletariats to the bourgeois "lady among the races"; title: Horace Cayton's wars : the race man, psychoanalysis and the politics of black emasculation; title: "Boys cannot learn to be men in a manless family" : from class to gender in the black boy crisis, 1940-1965.